#2

I decided to combine several of the free entry ideas since I didn't have enough of a single subject to write an entire blog. Here goes nothing.

Puns:
Edgar Allan Poe always used his manners when writing. He called it "Poetiquette."
I decided last week to write a book. My friends called it a novel idea.
Everyone I'm related to writes poems. Instead of a family tree we have a poetry.

They were supposed to be terrible, right?

Words that do not belong in poetry:
Personally-if you write about something, it's either your view or a character's view. There's no need to write "personally."
Sweater-this word is so overused. We get it. Nerdy is the new cool--glasses and sweaters and all that. Don't talk about a sweater in your poems unless you want to be written off completely in my book. It sounds harsh I know, but it's the truth.

Words I like:
Incognito-probably one of my favorite words because no one says it seriously.
Antidisestablishmentarianism-takes me back to the middle school days when you were cool if you knew this word. And really cool if you knew how to spell it. And even cooler if you knew what it meant.
Spontaneous-it represents such freedom in your actions. I think everyone should be a little more spontaneous.

~LaRue